Dorothy Dora's Unhappy Life Letter From 1918
Extracts from a letter by Mia Julian Kwan alias Dorothy Dorr, from 50 Rue de Paris Tientsin to a Shanghai friend describe a troubled life in China. She explains marriage to a Hartford minister, her subsequent misfortune, and enduring hardships including poverty, illness, isolation from family, and the pressure of a pending divorce and potential compensation. The letter reveals her intent to help Julian Kwan, her husband’s family, and her plans for freedom amid time in prison and pressure from her family.
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Chins Press
Shanghai
Mia Julian Kwan
Dorothy Dorr
Kwan
Shanghai Iy
Setory
Eer
Tientwin
Kwan Chi-ming
Mae
Soibere
Kobe
Nanpa
Julianwan
Shangre ES
China
Julian
Hiad
Tientsin
Kwans
Jullian
Julian Kwan
Westport Fire District Electors to Meet for Utilities and Sewers
Westport voters gather for a special meeting called by the Fire District committee to decide renewal of the contract with Westport Water Co and to consider extending the sewer system, funding needed projects, and compensating landowners for sewer construction across their property. The gathering also covers water rates, surface water disposal with the town, street repairs, and related measures.
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Westport
Fire District Committee
Robert W. Post
Thomas Quinlan
EH. C. Smith
Westport Water Co
Paul Nash
Saugatuck
State Street
Aliso
Saulipsis
New Haven Road
Wrest- Poort-Saugatuck
Savin’ Rock
Savin Rock
Eas
Saugatuck Ball Club
Burns & Bassick Co
Bridgeport
Compo
Saugatuck Whist Club
John K. Gault
Compo Street
Fairfield Ladies Society Prominent Concert at Greenfield Church
The Ladies Society of the Green less Congregational church will hold a concert in the church parlors on August 6 at 8 PM. Noted artists from Danbury Bridgeport and Fairfield will perform including Mrs Kittie Holton Ruth Holton Nelson Hutchinson and Miss Marion Dum Ruth Childs Hector Commette and others. Admission fifty cents with children twelve and under free. refreshments will be served.
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Ladies’ Society
The
Greenless Congregational
Kittie M Holton
Ruth Holton
Danbury
Nelson Hutchinson
Jirfiel
Marion C
Ruth Childs
William Tomlinson
Bridgeport
Joseph Wieler
Hector Commette
Robert Baramore
Jane McCarthy
Florence Umstatter
Fred A. Burr
Fairfield
Dunham
Greenfield
Fairfield Fireworks Opening Parade at Sherman School
Fairfield firemen will open this evening on the Sherman school grounds with a street parade through town streets in which the full department participates and Southport firemen with their steamer will assist. After the parade the fair will be formally opened. Edward Bond of Los Angeles visits his father in Mountain Plain. Miss Mercia Delbridge hosts Miss Ruth Harrington in Center Street. Mr and Mrs Clarence Andrews guests at Seashell cottage. sudden death of Allan W. Paige of Bridgeport in Chicago shocks friends in Connecticut. Paige a longtime political and business figure with a strong tempering influence despite partisan disagreements.
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Fairfield Firemen
Sherman School
Fairfield Department
Southport Firemen
Edward Bond
Los Angeles
Cal
George Bond
Mtn. Plain
Harry Disbrow
Wilds
Maine
Mercia Delbridge
Center St
Ruth Harrington
Lansingtonberg
N. Y
Clarence Andrews
Harry Edwards
New Haven
Mr. Paige
Union
Dunham forecasts four years of real prosperity in Hartford area
Ansonia Sentinel reports Austin G. Dunham traveling from Watch Hill to Hartford for directors meetings and inspecting his Newington farm. He predicts four years of good times under the Dilson administration, praises tariff progress, criticizes Smoot, notes crops and farm plans to divide land into five acre plots with two six room concrete cottages and barns to supply produce for households.
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Ansonia Sentinel
Austin G. Dunham
Watch Hill
Hartford
Newington
Dilson
Republican Party
Senator Smoot
Smoot
B. C
Congress
Wilson
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
New Haven
New York and Westchetser
Mr. Dunham
Allan W Paige remembered in Connecticut politics
Reminiscences honor Allan W Paige noting his blunt vigorous personality and a notable early canvass for the house assistant clerkship. The piece recalls his role at the 1900 Republican convention in New Haven and the enduring image of Deacon Sam Fessenden’s pointed rebuttal.
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Hartford Times
Allan W. Paige
Connecticut
Connecticut History and Pleasant Miscellany
A noted Connecticut public figure Allan W. Paige is praised for his era of public affairs while local notices mention Radford B. Smith's Saturday sale of summer goods and the Van Dyke Tea Co recipe circular offering a $1 prize for submitted recipes. A Bridgeport reader’s prize recipe Scotch Scones is detailed and a Veranda Pilots contest among yacht clubs hints at social activity. The piece weaves historical reflection with local commerce and household tips.
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New Haven Register
Allan W. Paige
Connecticut
Bobby
van Dyke Tea Co
J. McLean
Miouritaingrove Street
Bridgeport
Mountaingrove St
Conn
Mell en the Scapegoat
In Collier's Weekly the piece portrays Mellen as a scapegoat rather than a guilty principal. It argues he was an agent, not the dreamer or the self-made wealth creator, with railroad presidents as pawns and Wall Street as the mastermind. It questions public intelligence to identify the true architect of New Haven’s actions.
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Collier's Weekly
Mellen
Montana
Oregon
New England
Wall Street
New Haven
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Westport Bank & Trust Co
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W. H. Saxon
C. P. Harris
Edward Crone
New York
Ree Ward
Collier
River
Matt
Moon
Allan W. Paigh
Paige
Fessendden
Paige Ry
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